Best travel writing (in English)
Reading this review by Ben Downing of Patrick Leigh Fermor - the man and his work - piqued my curiosity regarding who is/are/was/were considered to be the best writers (in English) of travel...
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H V Morton's "In Search Of ..." books. They never fail to delight me by bringing alive people and places of a time long gone.
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Fermor is a very good writer, but a trifle on the florid side, which may or may not put you off. (My reaction varies depending on my mood.) Another, even more florid, writer is Charles Doughty, whose...
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I don't know about the best, but Smollett (Travels Through France and Italy, 1766) and Dickens (American Notes) take some beating.
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The late Sir Fitzroy MacLean's Eastern Approaches certainly deserves mention here.
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That Fitzroy Maclean certainly merits inclusion. A snippet from a reviewer of Dr T's nomination:"Maclean is a fine writer, with the British gift for understatement and wry humour. His exploits are...
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Bryson's Neither Here Nor There is one of the funniest books I've read. He hasn't matched it since (like so many humorists, he seems to have started taking things too seriously).
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I may be out of my league herebut wanted to bring to your attention:Blue Highways by William Least Heat MoonTravels with Charlie by William SteinbeckOur Hearts were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis...
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Welcome, and thanks for the nominations. Nothing illeagual about them!For the record though, suggest we add Emily Kimbrough's name to that of COS (OHWYAG was co-written)www.sonic.net/barny/our.html
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For the more recent period I'd go for Chatwin and Theroux. For the first half of the 20th I'd say: Evelyn Waugh.
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AlbertC, no doubt you noted in a footnote to the Downing piece:"Chatwins latest biographer, Nicholas Shakespeare, describes Leigh Fermor as Chatwins last guru and a man of action and of knowledge to a...
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Perhaps because this topic is not strictly of etymological interest, and because travel and travel writing dates, making it difficult to compare yesterday's writers with today's, this thread will...
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As to Evelyn Waugh's (not so well-known) travel writing: "Ninety-Two Days" is excellent and so is "Remote People". (Waugh used both travels as material in his novels "A Handful of Dust," "Black...
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A bit of diegogarcity (or in this case just plain old serendipity) in that evidently a collection of Waugh's travel writing has just been published.
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